GOPAL GHOSE | LEONARD ELMHIRST

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May 1, 04:13 PM GMT

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500 - 1,000 USD

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Property from the Collection of Ranu and Niladri Chaki

GOPAL GHOSE

1913 - 1980

LEONARD ELMHIRST

signed in Bengali, dated and inscribed Bombay 23/10/51; further signed Leonard Elmhirst

ink and pencil on paper

Sheet: 10 ¼ by 6 ⅞ in. (26 by 17.4 cm.)

Framed: 14 ¾ by 11 ½ in. (37.4 by 29.2 cm.)

Executed on 23 October 1951.

Acquired from Deepa Bose (Gopal Ghose’s daughter) circa 1985

J. O'Connell, P. Basu, N. Chaki, Tagore's Heritage, Rabindranath Tagore's Leadership Foundation, Toronto 1989, illustration p. 8

Toronto, University of Toronto, Life & Times of Rabindranath Tagore, November 2005

This is a sketch of Leonard Elmhirst by Indian painter Gopal Ghose done in 1955 at Bombay Airport. An agriculturist from Cornell University, Leonard Elmhirst (1893–1974) was greatly influenced by Rabindranath Tagore. He joined Tagore's institution in 1922 and became one of the main architects in building the Institute of Rural Reconstruction near Santiniketan. He also built Dartington Hall in Devon, UK which was based on Tagore’s ideology of art and education. This sketch bears the signatures of both Elmhirst and Gopal Ghose.